Abstract:
The objective of the research was to find out the effect of using ETR (Experience
Text Relationship) which was focused on critical reading comprehension
especially in descriptive text. The research design in this research was quantitative
experimental research. This research was conducted at SMP Swasta Bandung
Jalan Pengabdian No. 72 Bandar Setia Percut Sei Tuan in academic year
2017/2018. The population of this research in the junior high school students
which consits of two were clases namely: class VII- 1 and class VII-2. The total
number of population and were 123 students, consisted of two clases. They are
VII-1 and VII-2. The technique of sample used purposive sampling to determine
the experimental and control group.The sample were divided into two groups, the
first group VII-1 which consisted of 31 students was experimental group which
given treatment by using ETR (Experience Text Relationship) techniques and
second group VII-2 which consisted 31 students were control group which given
treatment by applying Conventional Method. The experimental research method
was given multiple choice test as the instument. Each group was given a treatment,
pre-test and post-test. The t-test was 3.50 and t-table 2.000 which was used 0.05
as the significant level of this research. Because the t–test value was higher than ttable (3.50 >2.000), it showed that the result in t-test was accepted (Ha). Based on
the result of this research, it can be concludedthat there was significant effect of
using Experience Text Relationship (ETR) Method on the students’ Critical in
Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text.
